LONDON'S GLOBAL UNIVERSITY
Arts and Sciences with Study
Abroad BASc
UCAS code: Y001
www.ucl.ac.uk/prospectus/artsci
Arts and Sciences with Study Abroad BASc
This exciting four-year programme provides
great flexibility and choice, offering an
interdisciplinary approach incorporating both
arts and sciences specialisms with the
opportunity to learn a foreign language and
spend a year at a university abroad. Students
create a bespoke programme and study
innovative courses to enhance the link between
disciplines.
Cultures (Humanities and Arts): Anthropology, Design and Visualisation,
Cultural Studies, Drawing Methodology, Film and Documentary
Film-Making, History, History of Art, Languages, Literature, Philosophy
Degree summary
Your learning
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UCL's Arts and Sciences programmes allow you to create a bespoke
programme, incorporating both arts and science specialisms.
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Responding to increased demand from employers for outstanding
graduates with cross-disciplinary experience, these degrees will
equip you with knowledge, skills and insight across arts and sciences
subjects.
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Spend your third year of study abroad at an approved university either in an English-speaking country or in a country where your
chosen foreign language is spoken.
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Core courses will enhance your understanding of how different
branches of knowledge interrelate. You will also develop your
language skills and undertake an internship, giving you the chance to
explore future employment options.
The programme offers a wide combination of specialist courses and an
interdisciplinary core. The core courses enable you to acquire the skills
and concepts you will need to work effectively across multiple disciplines.
They link traditional UCL subjects in new ways and explore the
conceptual and methodological differences between arts and science
subjects.
You will study a modern foreign language throughout your degree and
may gain work experience through an internship chosen to integrate with
your studies and future aspirations.
Possible internships include businesses, non-government organisations
and voluntary organisations. Our students have achieved internships
with, for example, Accenture, Goldman Sachs, Norton Rose Fulbright, the
UN, Reuters, the Wellcome Trust and many other organisations and
businesses.
You will choose a major and a minor pathway on application; your
pathways determine the subjects in which you specialise. We offer two
arts pathways and two sciences pathways.
Societies (Social Sciences): Archaeology, Economics, Geography,
History, International Relations, Philosophy, Political Economy, Politics,
Sociology
Health and Environment (Sciences): Anthropology, Biochemistry,
Biological Sciences, Biomedicine, Environmental Sciences, Geography,
Geology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Psychology, Science and
Technology Studies
Sciences and Engineering (Sciences): Chemistry, Computer Science,
Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Science
and Technology Studies, Statistics
You will be exposed to a wide range of learning opportunities, including
lectures, seminars, tutorials, interactive groups and multimedia projects.
Core courses will be taken alongside your fellow BASc students. Courses
relating to your pathway subjects will be taught by specialist staff from
across UCL and will provide you with an opportunity to learn alongside
students on other programmes.
Both your pathway subjects and the language component will be
assessed by written examinations and essays. Project work and a
dissertation will contribute to your overall assessment. You will be
required to give presentations, work on group projects and multimedia
projects and participate in assessed debates.
Your career
On graduation, you will have at least two academic specialisms, strong
leadership and communication skills and the ability to work flexibly and
creatively in a range of fields.
The Arts and Sciences programmes are designed to prepare students for
a wide variety of contemporary careers. One of the core courses in the
final year will specifically explore ways in which employers in a range of
fields acquire, use and value knowledge.
The employers with whom we regularly consult have commented that the
degree will equip students with the breadth of knowledge, the cultural and
quantitative awareness and the teamwork skills that they are looking for
in graduate recruits. The hands-on experience provided by the summer
internship is also highly valued.
The first cohort of students admitted to the Arts and Sciences four-year
BASc programme are due to graduate after 2016. Therefore, information
about career destinations for students on these programmes is not yet
available.
Degree structure
In each year of your degree you will take a number of individual courses,
normally valued at 0.5 or 1.0 credits, adding up to a total of 4.0 credits for
the year. Courses are assessed in the academic year in which they are
taken. The balance of compulsory and optional courses varies from
programme to programme and year to year. A 1.0 credit is considered
equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
Year One
Core courses
Approaches to Knowledge: Introduction to Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinary Research Methods
Language
Quantitative Methods 1: Exploring Complexity
Pathways
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Cultures
Health and Environment
Sciences and Engineering
Societies
Choose three courses from your major pathway and one course from your
minor pathway. Students choosing Cultures or Societies as their major
must choose Health and Environment or Sciences and Engineering as
their minor pathway, and vice versa. This ensures that you study a mix of
arts and sciences courses throughout the programme.
Year Two
Core courses
Interdisciplinary Elective
Language
Making Value Judgements: Qualitative Thinking
Object Lessons: Communicating Knowledge through Collections
Quantitative Methods 2: Data Science and Visualisation
Pathways
As year one
Summer at the end of year two
Internship
Year Three
Year abroad at an approved partner university. Options are currently
available in Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Ecuador, France,
Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, South Korea, Spain and
the USA.
Final Year
Core courses
The Knowledge Economy
Language
Dissertation
Pathways
As year one
Entry requirements
A levels
A level grades
A*AA-AAA
A level subjects
A mixture of arts/humanities/social sciences and
sciences/Mathematics. Major pathway
requirements: Cultures or Societies: two
arts/humanities/social sciences plus one
science/Mathematics; Sciences and Engineering:
Mathematics and one other science plus one
arts/humanities/social science; Health and
Environment: Chemistry or Biology, and one
other science or social science plus one
arts/humanities/social science.
AS levels
For UK-based students a pass in a further subject
at AS level or equivalent is required.
GCSE
English Language and Mathematics at grade B.
For UK-based students, a grade C or equivalent
in a foreign language (other than Ancient Greek,
Biblical Hebrew or Latin) is required. UCL
provides opportunities to meet the foreign
language requirement following enrolment,
further details at: www.ucl.ac.uk/ug-reqs
IB diploma
IB points
38-39
Subjects
A score of 18-19 points in three higher level
subjects with a mixture of arts/humanities/social
sciences and sciences/Mathematics. Major
pathway requirements: Cultures or Societies:
either one higher level subject from groups 4 or 5
and two higher level subjects from groups
1,2,3,6; or three higher level subjects from groups
1,2,3,6 and two standard level subjects from
groups 4 or 5, with grades of 6 in each. Sciences
and Engineering: to include higher level
Mathematics at grade 6 and a further higher level
subject from groups 4 or 5 plus one higher level
subject from groups 1,2,3,6. Health and
Environment: to include higher level Chemistry or
Biology at grade 6 and a further higher level
subject from groups 3,4 or 5 plus one higher level
subject from groups 1,2,3,6.
Other qualifications
Full lists of all degree programmes and other entry requirements can be
found on our website at: www.ucl.ac.uk/otherquals
PDF Updated: August 18, 2015
Information correct at time of going to press. See website (www.ucl.ac.uk/prospectus/artsci) for latest information
Undergraduate Preparatory
Certificates
UCL's Undergraduate Preparatory Certificates (UPCs) are intensive
one-year foundation courses for international students of high academic
potential, who are aiming to gain access to undergraduate degree
programmes at UCL and other top UK universities.
For more information see our website: www.ucl.ac.uk/upc
Your application
Application for admission should be made through UCAS (the
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service). Applicants currently at
school or college will be provided with advice on the process; however,
applicants who have left school or who are based outside the United
Kingdom may obtain information directly from UCAS.
Your application should provide evidence that you are prepared for
critical enquiry and in-depth academic work across a broad intellectual
spectrum; interested in engaging in wider societal, cultural and global
issues; interested in careers involving leadership, social entrepreneurship
and intercultural exchange; prepared to think critically and creatively to
seek new connections between types of knowledge; interested in
combining non-standard areas of study in your degree.
We recognise you may not be able to write a personal statement which
reflects your interest in this programme and your other UCAS choices.
This will not adversely affect your application. If your application
demonstrates your eligibility, we will email you and ask you to complete a
questionnaire.
Fees
UK/EU fee
£9,000 (2016/17)
Overseas fee
£18,670 (2016/17)
Notes
Details about financial support are available at:
www.ucl.ac.uk/study/ug-finance
Contacts
Contact
Mr Carl Gombrich
Admissions Tutor
Email
basc-info@ucl.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)20 7679 3115
Prospectus entry
www.ucl.ac.uk/prospectus/artsci